Vigil for Bradley Manning

BRADLEY MANNING 1,000 days in prison – Enough is enough!
	23 February 2013 International Day of Action Events in Canada , Germany , Italy , Slovakia , UK , US. . .

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LONDON, 2-4pm – Picket and Speak Out

US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, W1A 2LQ
( Bond Street or Marble Arch tube)

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The Bradley Manning Support Network (BMSN) has called for an International Day of Action in support of Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old gay US soldier, charged with blowing the whistle on US war crimes by giving thousands of documents to Wikileaks, including the infamous “Collateral Murder” video.

The Guardian who named Bradley Manning as Person of The Year 2012 reported today 
A military judge has pushed back the trial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being behind the Wikileaks publication of state secrets. See also, Refusing To Kill Is Not A Crime

A Vigil is being held at 5pm on 1st march, outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London. The full sound track of the infamous ‘Collateral Damage video’ will be played. Go to veterans for peace FFi

Contact Bob at bristolagainstarmstrade@gmail.com if you would like to join us, we can help with transport costs.

Exposing War Crimes Is Not a Crime – Bradley Manning Pretrial Update

Mental health professional Captain Kevin Moore took the stand in the second day of the pretrial hearing for PFC Bradley Manning, explaining that Bradley’s isolated conditions that wore on his mental health were even worse than death row treatment he observed earlier in his career.

Cpt. Moore and another psychiatrist, Captain William Hoctor, testified that Quantico Brig officials ignored their recommendations to change the way Manning was being treated, they both said that this was completely different than previous brig officials they’ve worked for, who usually complied with their recommendations within days. Cpt. Hoctor’s went onto say they had no psychiatric reason to keep him on prevention of injury watch or to remove his clothes, and that the restrictive treatment left Bradley isolated, stressed, and depressed.

Exposing war crimes is not a crime it is in fact according to international law it is our duty. For more information on the pretrial and the horrific condition Manning is having to face go to

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

Bradley Manning-Julian Assange Update

Bradley Manning  has stated to the US military that he may  acknowledge  responsibility for some disclosure of sensitive material, if he is charged with lesser offences. It isn’t a plea bargain which is common in the US Judicial system, it appears he may also accept to be tried by a  military judge and not a jury.

Manning, a 24-year-old Army private first class, has been detained under military custody since May 26, 2010 but has yet to be tried. The US government says the soldier supplied Julian Assange’s Wikileaks site with hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other materials he is alleged to have had access to while deployed, and if convicted for as much he could be sentenced to life in prison. During pretrial motion hearings in Ft. Meade, Maryland early Wednesday, Manning’s legal counsel told the judge that their client has submitted a plea notice in the case that could greatly influence how next year’s scheduled court-martial plays out.

Jennifer Robinson a lawyer in Australia gives a clear insight into Assanges situation.

Bradley Manning finally gets a hearing

By Kelley Vlahos in  Antiwar Forum .        Next week, a 24-year-old American Army private will be on trial for his very life.

His supporters say “we are all Bradley Manning,” and perhaps they are right. His first hearing since he was arrested in May 2010 and put in military custody takes place on the heels of a Senate vote last week that would give the US military the ability to detain anyone on domestic soil suspected of loosely defined connections to terror — even American citizens —without hearing or trial. Though the president has promised to veto the measure, if it stands, Americans could find themselves sitting in a cell one day on the military’s timetable, their constitutional rights in question.